Dr. Fakhrul Ahsan is a pharmacist by training, received his B.Pharm.

(Hons) and Masters in Pharmacy Degrees, both with first class, from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. Upon completion of his studies at Dhaka University, he worked as a formulation scientist for a pharmaceutical company in Bangladesh. He received his PhD in Pharmaceutics from the University of Madrid in 1999; his doctoral study was funded by the government of Spain. He later completed a post-doctoral fellowship in nasal drug delivery in the School of Medicine of the University of Alabama at Birmingham before joining Texas Tech School of Pharmacy as an assistant professor in 2001. Currently, he is an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences; he is expected to be promoted to full professor within a year. Dr. Ahsan teaches graduate and professional level pharmaceutics courses at Texas Tech School of Pharmacy. His research interest is respiratory drug delivery. He has published 53 scientific papers and book chapters covering various aspects of inhalational drug delivery and traditional pharmaceutical formulations. All of his publications are in first-tier pharmaceutical and drug delivery journals. As of September 2012, he has been cited over 1200 times and has an H-index of 20. He has mentored four doctoral students, a Master student, three postdoctoral fellows, and is currently mentoring four doctoral students. He is an US Federal Government (National Institutes of Health) funded investigator and received about $1 million as federal grants. He serves as an ad-hoc reviewer of various NIH grant review panels and American Heart Association Grant Review Panel. He is an editorial board member of European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, is currently serving as an Associate Editor of Journal of Drug Targeting. He serves as a reviewer of almost all pharmaceutical journals including Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Research, Journal of Controlled Release, and International Journal of Pharmaceutics He was awarded Texas Tech University Presidents Young Investigator Award 2004 and is a recipient of an Invitation Fellowship from the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science. He was voted as the Mentor of the Year 2012 by the Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Students and his teaching team was voted as the Team of the Year 2010.